Unlike most other companies, Rickenbacker does
not pay their endorsers large sums of money to say
they use Rickenbackers. In fact I personally have sold at least 2 dozen
Rickenbackers to endorsers.

Rickenbacker called and asked me to give them a
slightly better discount but they said that I could sell it at any price I
wanted to. It has paid for me to work with many of these people because they
have sent me more business than I can handle.

When a Rockstar buys a guitar it works a little
differently. Normally the subject of money is never discussed. It is assumed
that there will be no bill and if there was one it would be mailed directly to
the manager and said Rockstar would never have to confront the dealer and
discuss anything as crass as dollars and cents.

Usually a couple of weeks after a guitar is
delivered, sometimes as much as 2 years later. The particular Rockstar might
bestow a gift upon me or to one of the Luthiers in the shop. I have been given
Rolex's, Franck Muller watches and once even a $50,000.00 Patek Phillippe
Tourbillon Watch. In 1982 Joe Savage gave me a beautiful solid gold nugget
bracelet.